The Promotion of Healthcare: A Challenge for Health Professionals and Educators
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Organizations, Systems, and Providers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 November 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: community psychology; psychosocial well-being; health psychology; health promotion; gender studies; healthcare professionals; intergroup relations
Interests: LGBTQ+; intimate partner violence; homophobia; minority stress; parenthood; mental health; health psychology; community psychology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In today’s complex health landscape, the promotion of healthcare requires the integration of psychological knowledge, educational innovation and the active involvement of health professionals (such as physicians, nurses, psychologists, educators, social workers and allied health practitioners). The interdisciplinary collaboration is crucial to fostering awareness, empowerment and behavioural change at individual and community levels. However, translating health-promotion principles into effective and sustainable healthcare practices remains a challenge, shaped by social, cultural and organisational dynamics.
This Special Issue aims to gather original studies, systematic reviews, project outcomes and narrative reviews exploring how psychological, community-based and educational approaches can contribute to improving health outcomes and uphold every individual’s right to respectful and inclusive healthcare. Particular attention will be given to the training programmes of healthcare professionals, not only regarding professional skills and wellbeing (i.e., burnout prevention), but also key competencies such as gender awareness, empathy, relational sensitivity toward patients and clients, interprofessional collaboration and the evaluation of patient-oriented health interventions.
By bridging psychology, health sciences and education, this Special Issue seeks to advance practices that support both population health and the human quality of healthcare relationships.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Silvia Gattino
Dr. Luca Rollè
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- healthcare
- well-being
- action research
- gender awareness
- public system
- clinical skills training
- health promotion
- inclusive healthcare
- respectful healthcare
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